New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. Thick octavo ( 24 x 16.5 cm.), xi, 621, [1] pages. Index. Illustrated with line drawings by Karl Stuecklen. FIRST EDITION. 1000 new recipes from the great American icon "at the pinnacle of his career" (jacket copy), a followup to his Theory & Practice of Good Cooking (1977). Slightest fading to edges of publisher's printed glossy boards. Dust jacket spine a tiny bit sun.....
London: William Heinemann, 1930. Octavo (23 x 15.5 cm.), viii, 72 pages. Top edge gilt. FIRST EDITION, number 64 of 75 numbered copies, signed by both authors. Marcel Boulestin was a French chef, restaurateur and author of cookbooks that popularized French cuisine in the English-speaking world. His London restaurant, the Restaurant Français, opened in 1927, and was known at the time as the most expensive in the city. In publisher’s.....
[New York]: Castoria, Centaur Liniment, Dr. Wei De Meyer, [1883]. Duedecimo (15.25 x 10 cm.), 32 pages. Advertisements. Various small illustrations throughout. Product cookbook promoting Centaur's Castoria and Dr. Wei de Meyer's Catarrh Cure, with recipes "adapted from the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York". With testimonials, including one from P.T. Barnum. Some light spotting within. In red- and black-illustrated wrappers depicting "The Diver" with a small cord for hanging. Tiny.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1968. Quarto, xv, 684, xxxii, [2] pages. Seventeenth printing, originally issued in October 1961. The classic book that started the career of the most famous of American food personalities. Fading and light soil to top edge and to spine; the red is particularly faded. Good. Lacking dust jacket. Inscribed on the half-title, "Bon appetit to Michael, Julia Child, 9/22/92"
Pittsburgh, Pa. Nettie M. Kaufman; J.A. Perley; Henderson Press Printers, Pittsburg, Pa. 1909. Octavo, (23 x 15 cm.), 224, XXII pages. Index to advertisers. Advertisements at rear, including an additional recipe supplied by an advertiser. Blank pages interspersed for "Memorandum". Illustrated chapter headings and tipped-in frontispiece depicting an African-American "mammy" tasting from a spoon. Evident first and only edition. An early Pennsylvania Jewish community cookbook. Recipes are attributed and hailing.....
Boston: People’s Publishing Company, 1883. Octavo, 454 pages. First edition of this thorough household cookbook, issued by the publisher’s of Fireside Journal. Includes some interesting apple desserts. Previous owner’s pencil to rear free end paper, a bit of rust to the front free end paper, otherwise a fine copy, with the binding clean and crisp.
Biddeford, Maine: Rabelais Inc., 2018. Volume one only (all published to date). Small quarto (26.5 x 19 cm.), 169 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Title Index. Bibliography. Designed and with a letterpressed wrapper by Scott Vile of the Ascensius Press in Bar Mills, Maine. FIRST EDITION. ~ ~ The first volume in a long-term effort to examine AMERICAN COMMUNITY COOKBOOKS as a genre, within a context of other cookbooks which.....
[Gloucester]: Procter Brothers, Publishers, 1882. Octavo (23 x 16 cm.), 274, [38] pages. Illustrated. Advertisements. ~ FIRST EDITION. An omnibus of information about the American seafood industry in the final decades of the 19th century, covering the fishermen and fishing industry of Gloucester, Massachusetts, at the tip of Cape Ann. The book contains lists of vessels operating; explains the value (economic, but also health-wise) of various types of seafood; tell.....
late 1500s. Engraving, (23.5 x 29.5 cm. image dimensions). Signed in lower part of impression, "Bassan. inuet. loa. Sadeler sc." and CU. priuil. S. Caes. M." and ex S. Lvc. xvi. cap." Lacking the legend below the image. One of Sadeler's three "Kitchen" scenes, this one with Lazaraus seen from behind at right with two dogs,, seated and looking at a dinner table with the rich man, a kitchen with.....
[Boston, Mass. Stickney & Poor Spice Company, [circa 1900]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (15 x 8.5 cm.), 12 pages. FIRST EDITION. A handsomely-produced product cookbook for Stickney & Poor's mustard, with twenty-seven recipes, including lots of salads and sandwiches. Very light soil to brown printed tan wrappers, otherwise fine. One handwritten recipe to interior wrapper panel, Scotch Wood-Cock, Ethelynde Smith". [OCLC locates just one copy (Historical Society of Penn)].